In this preprint we develop a methodological framework to trace individual vs field changes for authors from the field of general relativity and gravitiation. By comparing 50 author trajectories in the four measures with a background corpus we are able to paint a diverse picture of how the same …

Distinguishing gradual change from the emergence of genuinely new directions is a central challenge in tracking how research fields evolve. This preprint explores local versus global evolution of knowledge systems through the socio-epistemic networks (SEN) framework, pairing an information-theoretic …